CQOD: 03/05/06 -- Gwatkin: the witnesses to living power

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 5, 2006Meditation:
    For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. 1For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying,

        "I will tell of your name to my brothers;
        in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."

    -- Hebrews 2:10-12 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    No wonder if the Christians made an impression out of all proportion to their numbers. Conviction in the midst of waverers, fiery energy in a world of disillusion, purity in an age of easy morals, firm brotherhood in a loose society, heroic courage in a time of persecution, formed a problem that could not be set aside, however polite society might affect to ignore it: and the religion of the future turned on the answer to it. Would the world be able to explain it better than the Christians, who said it was the living power of the risen Savior?
    ... Henry M. Gwatkin (1844-1916), Early Church History to A.D. 312 [1909]

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